Re: 2 Days Til Comic-con and 1 week until TLT! (Rant/Blog-type thinking ahead!)

In article <xLHqi.11039$_d2.686@pd7urf3no>,
Matt Ion <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Ugh. Webisodes still have one major problem to overcome: thick-headed
suits who feel it necessary to control access to the content based on
geographical borders. I'm told, for example, that there's a lot of
additional back-story and filler information available for Jericho on
webisodes; that's nice, but they won't let anyone outside the US view
them. Yeah, I can easily hack around that, but that's not the point:
for your average shmoe sitting at home, they're simply not available.
It's particularly frustrating because the webisodes are often advertised
right along with (or directly after) the broadcasts, even in areas where
they're not available.

In fairness to the suits (and you know how hard that is for
me) a lot of this is driven by legal issues such as copyrights, granted
rights, having to pay extra to the Guilds, etc. It isn't all on the
suits.

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